2/ Pain is real. Hundreds of thousands, or millions of people experience crushing, horrific, chronic pain. It is often so bad that they are driven to suicide. "Reformer" Puritan types have an instinctive dislike for pain management, and concentrate on the potential for abuse
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13/ No, Oxycontin - a time release drug - was even less addictive than Contin, the "all at once" drug that it replaced. Funding journals and medical orgs is (a) legitimate, (b) standard practice, (c) a human right, as recognized under First Amendmenthttps://twitter.com/nothinggate/status/1319248112200933376 …
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14/ I don't see a problem being presented. What's the problem? That some people abuse opioids? OK, well, some people abuse alcohol. Should we destroy the Brown–Forman Corporation for funding ads, concerts, and bookbooks to sell Jack Daniels ?https://twitter.com/Bobthewelding1/status/1319248713173393408 …
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15/ The world is imperfect (and imperfectable). People are weak and prone to sin. As conservatives, we know all of this. And yet we still think that people have the right to drink, home-school, own guns, and drive motorcycles. Why are opioids some magically different case?
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16/ I'm an ancap. I believe that humans have rights to do whatever they want to themselves. I support the right of folks to drink whiskey for fun, take oxy for pain, and smoke crack cocaine to numb the pain of being a Biden.https://twitter.com/Bobthewelding1/status/1319249988615065600 …
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Excellent points. From the healthcare perspective, if you can’t or won’t relieve suffering, you’re nearly useless.
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